Chapter 230 Chapter 712 Across Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 230 Chapter 7.12 Across Mountains and Rivers

Of the eight major arcane schools (seven plus one), for laymen, the evocation school is the school that is most like a spellcaster.

Fire, thunder, and frost burst out with intuitive power. The most recruited by various countries and large mercenary groups are evocation mages. Used for frontal output.

However, Wei Keng knew at the beginning of learning arcane that he did not lack frontal output, but needed to be wary of hidden arrows and conspiracies from all sides.

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The first checkpoint to enter the imperial capital from the south is the Tiewenshan Fortress.

The general in this fortress sent out knights to intercept the steam car queue as soon as he saw it. Of course, after confirming Carret's identity, he sent a guard corps to escort his group to the next checkpoint.

This escort may be a respect for "Carret", the imperial royal family.

Of course, it is also possible that even if it is clear that such a powerful siege force is legal, it is still afraid of any accidents along the way.

For example, an emergency situation where several towns within the fortress defense zone were directly attacked. Well, even if Carret behaved very friendly and did not look like a madman, perhaps some blind people deliberately bumped into the blade.

This, you go to the street with a kitchen knife, even if you hold pork in your left hand, to prove that you are a legal butcher. But people on the road still have to give way.

And for Carret, the bigger the pomp behind him, the better. The reason why he made such a big fuss this time was to prove that he went to the capital and seriously followed the order.

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The tank moved forward with a creak. Let the surrounding horse hoof sounds become the soundtrack.

In this long-distance march, the repair spell in the transformation spell keeps the gears in precise engagement.

The guards sent by the fortress general are standard town troops, holding long spears, wearing their own leather armor, and swords forged in the blacksmith shop.

As for the queue, oh, don't expect them to walk out of the orthodox marching column, just five people in a group and not scattered.

Although the steam tank was not fast, the escort team soon fell behind.

Carret looked at the long team behind him that was dragged for a kilometer and made a decision. --That is to hire a cart in the town. Then let these following city guards lie on their own carts.

For this reason, Nord Knight argued with Wei Keng again.

Nord: "Your Highness, we don't need to worry about these locals. They will naturally return to their base after falling behind."

Carret found a sufficient excuse to argue: "No, no, no, my Lord Knight, since they followed us, we have to worry. You said that there may be all kinds of accidents along the way. If I am a sneak attacker, I will definitely catch the stragglers in a certain team to obtain information. In short, it won't be much faster now, so why not be steady."

After saying this, Wei Keng leaned on the tank and continued to meditate. And the mechanical mages accompanying the Northern Territory also took turns to meditate close to the mechanical furnace. The gap driven by the steam boiler was linked by a group of mental induction.

The mechanical structure in the tank locomotive is the same as the mechanical visualization they had in school, which is of unified standard.

Among the new mages in the Northern Territory, everyone is familiar with their tolerances for standard runes, so they can uniformly obtain magic energy from mechanical facilities.

They infuse the enthalpy generated by the operation of the machinery into the spiritual field, construct the spell configuration, and then feed it back to the various parts of the tank to ensure that the mechanical parts are stable and not broken.

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So, during this long journey, the first mechanized mage team under Carrett was gradually honed.

These mechanical chariots with precision processing in the late 19th century have never failed during long-distance voyages.

According to the rules of the main world, in the control group with the same mechanical material properties, in such operation, metal parts accumulate tiny cracks under stress all the time until they collapse.

But in the world of arcane magic, these stress accumulations are erased by the arcane repairs of mechanics.

When the machinery has mages who are familiar with them and take care of every inch of the body, the machinery is like a creature with soul and can repair itself.

Master Wei: "This, in the future, these maintenance spells will be solidified in the intelligent core array, so that the refined steel can be refined into the true body, the circuit geometry can be preserved, the silicon crystal can be purified and sublimated, and the mechanical heroic spirit can be used as a strong shield."

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Oh, the above is the daily routine of the mechanical mage team, and the magic energy extracted by Wei Keng is mainly used in information exploration.

The two spells of advanced exploration (seventh ring of prophecy) and true knowledge (sixth ring of prophecy) are currently the most released spells by Carret on this journey.

Wei Keng muttered in his heart: "The surroundings are too quiet now."

Yes, it is indeed quiet enough. There is no worst expectation of Master Wei: "Tang Monk went to the West to obtain the scriptures, and there were ninety-nine and eighty-one difficulties."

This is because: when the steam convoy just set off, it directly bombarded the small bushes with nearly forty rounds of four-ring energy-shaping spells, and blew away the druids sent by unknown forces. After that, many of the parties who had been waiting and watching had their little thoughts extinguished.

Just like the international reality in the ancient times: when your country is strong enough, the world's hostility towards you mostly stays on the Internet and in diplomatic cliques and verbal attacks. The direct hostility will only be released when your country is really weak.

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A few months ago, the forces in the capital city clashed fiercely, and the nobles below were watching the news from all sides.

Carret, who had no parents, had to leave his territory and go to the royal family. For other nobles along the way, this was a good opportunity to show goodwill to the powerful people in the capital city.

Here we have to mention Carret's father, who didn't have a good reputation back then. Now his descendants have fallen to the point where they have lost their fiefdoms, and it seems that everyone can step on him.

But as soon as they raised their feet, they found that the "poor man in the north" was dressed in metal armor and armed to the teeth.

Master Wei played the "March of the Big Bad Guys", and the tracks crushed the road all the way.

This, stepping on such a force that can directly break through the defenses of small and medium-sized towns to show loyalty to some big figures in the imperial capital? These big sly guys began to weigh the pros and cons again.

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The road was so peaceful that Carret felt a little regretful of "walking in brocade clothes at night" and "showing his sword but not drinking blood".

Along the way, Master Carrett had many exchanges with Knight Commander Nord, asking the engineering tank troops to leave the main road and go around to the territories of the lords, who were old friends with his father.

Carrett explained to Nord: "People should be polite. My father was taken care of by these adults when he went to the northern territory, and I must pay a return visit."

But in fact, everyone knows that Father Carrett was not an "old friend" with these lords back then, and at most he only met them once. If Father Carrett really had such emotional intelligence in dealing with people, Carrett might be the heir to the capital now.

So, in one town after another, heavy rock music began to sound. Industrial songs began to spread

Carrett's true little thoughts,

Nord and his party saw it from his lively and rich behavioral performance art every time he arrived at a territory.

Nord complained to other team members privately: "He is too controlled by his arcane mentor, so once he is released, he wants to show off without restrictions."

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Carret is very ostentatious. Wherever he goes, he must give a speech in the town. To the city guards, he speaks about how powerful the steam cars under his command are, and to the street vendors, he tells them that the northern canals have irrigated the fertile land with potential.

The 18-point charm attribute makes Master Wei very socially awesome. ——Master Wei: As the future industrial god, I must promote the industrial road in this expedition.

During this journey, Wei Keng, like a bard, has gained a lot of reputation along the way.

But in the eyes of the old hands from all sides: Prince Carret is too young and rarely thinks about what he does.

In their eyes, Carret has not won the sincere support of any lord while staying on the land of the lords of various regions.

Well, no one will support such a fool who talks nonsense in front of civilians. Especially the ruthless music, which made the glass windows of the entire aristocracy tremble three times.

All the lords welcomed Carret's arrival on the scene, but privately they just hoped that this idiot would leave as soon as possible. However, due to face and because they didn't want this idiot to be stimulated and become crazy, so as not to let the tanks face a castle and have a "siege crossbow power test" accident, they could only send him off with good words.

So along the way, Carret's team was escorted by various city defense forces in turn.

System duty personnel: Sixteen or seventeen-year-old boys are really annoying.

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July to August.

Starting from the northern territory, after a boring journey for a whole month, finally, as long as they passed the lake area in front of them, they could reach the Eger Empire. The journey ended quickly, and in Nord's opinion, Carret seemed to be a little reluctant.

This lake is called the Mud Swamp. About two thousand years ago, it was just after the end of the Seven Sages, the era of the Seven Sages, that is, the seven legendary wizards. When the order of the highest-level mages was gone, there was a chaotic scene of wanton seizure of resources.

At that time, the necromancer group drove a large number of skeletons to conquer cities in various regions like a tide.

Necromancer magic is a magic that explores the mysteries of life, and it mainly studies the vitality of living things.

Even if the high-level necromancers cast spells to summon, they often create bone dragons, or directly construct and generate bone to bind powerful "negative energy" to give a fatal blow to creatures as strong as sub-dragons.

At that time, there were almost five or six hundred low-level necromancers, mainly apprentices controlled by high-level necromancers. They launched the undead disaster just to collect resources for their masters. ——For the necromancers, if they can get enough lives, they can extract organic matter with high quantum information, so people are resources.

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The Eger Empire was just an earldom at the time, and it was on the verge of collapse in the face of a massive tide of undead. So the mages in the territory at the time adopted the method of using water instead of soldiers. They released softening magic on the dam of the Kuoyang River at that time, and a flood submerged the undead army marching south. However, after more than 40 days of infiltration, large and small discontinuous lakes were formed in the northeast corner of the current imperial capital.

These lakes do not hinder commercial roads, but they are also difficult to clean. Too much dark energy is deposited at the bottom of the lake, resulting in very fierce mutations of deep-water creatures here. Swamp catfish, corpse crocodiles, black blood pythons and the like are the specialties here.

Of course, some thief groups in the empire think that this place is hidden and only 50 kilometers away from the prosperous area of ​​the empire, very close, and also build bases here.

It is said that there are hundreds of square kilometers of water here, and there is a thief organization of three or five people stationed on every ten islands. Oh - there are a lot of traps on these islands that only they know how to avoid. It is difficult for outsiders to break in.

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Master Carret, who has always been cautious and safe, decided to take the main road, that is, to wade directly horizontally from the area between several lakes.

Regarding this swamp, Wei Keng initially thought it was a place without order, but when the tank drove through the road, Wei Keng found that there were inns every few kilometers here, and there were signs on many roads.

On the signs were crooked words such as "owls singing, scarecrows dancing" and other inexplicable words. Some of the handwriting was written with dry grass, some were written with quill pens, and the ink was different.

Wei Keng released these signs: Mastering Legends (prophecy system, six-ring spells, reading the origin and information of items).

These are all the codes to enter the black market.

For example, the owl calls, which is on an old crooked tree nearby, where there are three owl nests. That is the place for the connection.

The scarecrow dances, which is the scarecrow mark inserted on the bow by the black market guide.

Different inks and handwritings indicate the time of writing and the importance of the connection task.

Wei Keng couldn't help but admire: "Those who can run the black market under the nose of the imperial capital are indeed talents. If they can't be recruited in the future, they must be severely cracked down by fuel-air bombs."

After admiring, Carret made a signal, and the mechanical mage sitting in the tank cockpit handed over a mechanical crossbow. Wei Keng held the crossbow arrow, stepped on it, and immediately raised it to aim at the thing on the bush a hundred meters away.

The Nord Knight Captain on the side noticed the movements of the guy he was guarding and immediately became alert.

Whoosh, a second later, although the arrow was curved in trajectory, it still snapped and shot the black duck that was spying on him to death.

However, after shooting the black duck, Carrett did not put away the crossbow. He still frowned and looked ahead: "I have been warned, but you still don't know what's good for you?"

So he raised the crossbow arrow again, this time aiming at the thief who was still spying in the bushes.

Of course, when the thief was locked by the arrow, he sensed the danger, twisted his body and left, and at this time, the spear in the hand of Knight Leader No was thrown out.

This shocked Wei Keng, and he only saw the muscles of the knight leader snap.

There was a red light on his arm, and then the short spear was ejected like a steam catapult, and there was a force wrapped around the short spear when it was flying.

Yes, after it was released, judging from the knight leader's standing posture and the force of his feet on the ground, it was still providing thrust to the short spear that was released.

This made the short spear directly break through the limit of 75 meters of the first energy level, reaching a speed of 100 meters per second before falling, and the tip of the spear also released the limit due to friction with the air, and wiped out the flame light that could not exist on the earth.

Bang.

The spear fell to the ground, breaking the thief's leg on the spot. Then several knights walked over.

The Nord Knight Commander said to the stunned Wei Keng: "My Lord, next time I encounter a spy, please remind me not to act without authorization."

And Carret stared at the guy's strong muscles, and after a while, he blurted out: "My Lord Knight Commander, I want to learn this."

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Muscles can't beat machines? This is a cognitive habit brought about by the common sense of the geophysical environment.

In this world, there is a magical way to store energy, and the distance of muscle action is definitely not the distance that the hand can throw.

The knight can still exert force on the object after it has been released from his hand for more than ten seconds.

Let's put it this way, this is similar to on Earth, you carry a shot put and do work for five minutes, climb to the fifth floor, and all the vehicles below can't withstand the blow of you falling from the roof.

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After mixing potions and luck training, Carret's strength value is now above the average value of ordinary human carbon base.

This energy adopts the operation mode of the true energy in the Shenzhou plane on the body. Although the physical rules of the two planes are very different, the movement reaction mode of the human carbon-based body is similar, and they can be mutually borrowed in design.

The true energy in Carret's body flows through his limbs and bones. At present, it is still one step away from condensation. As long as the condensation is completed, it will be the existence of liquid ligaments. It can also burst out the explosive power of a strong bow and crossbow.

Of course, Carret's previous practice was just to be prepared for "no shortcomings". ——Wei Keng: "If I am banned from magic, I will directly hold a flashlight in my left hand and a gentleman sword in my right hand to show my supreme sword intention."

And now I see the disadvantages of the warrior. I really want it.

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The Knight Commander of Nord is very useful to Carret's sudden enthusiasm.

After all, in the aristocratic world, it is rare for a mage to praise a warrior. ——He didn't understand the words such as "main t" that Carret praised, but he could feel sincere envy.

Of course, as an upright knight, he remained humble and advised Carret: "My Lord, human energy is limited, and the training of a knight must start from childhood." In short, without ten years of high-intensity training with sword and shield, strengthening muscles and stimulating the power source of blood, the path of knighthood cannot be taken.

In the eyes of the Nord Knight Commander: Carret is now sixteen years old. Although his blood has the source of life, he has missed the path to becoming a warrior. And a person's energy is limited. If he takes the path of arcane magic, he must make choices in other aspects.

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While Wei Keng was "disappointed" looking at the warrior manual given by Nord, he pulled down the menu bar of the system system to see if there was any remedy.

Energy is limited, but hanging on the wall is unlimited.

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The journey continued, and the captured thief gritted his teeth and said nothing.

In fact, Carret can use hypnosis and torture with severe pain, but! This kind of thief organization has existed for a long time, and it should be strictly confidential in all aspects. Instead of exposing his ability to master high-level spells, it is better to temporarily hold him hostage.

The team accelerated, and there were no more trailing snoopers. When they were about to leave the swamp area. They met an old man.

The old man was willing to give something to exchange the captured thief back.

Although this guy looks like he can be blown down by a gust of wind. But Carrett, who "respects the old and loves the young", did not look down on him.

He asked the knight to put the thief down in the middle of the road.

Carrett: "You can take the person away. I am not interested in your things, but I hope you can accept this warning. I don't want to encounter such rude behavior next time."

The old thief sighed: "Thank you for your generosity. In the name of the God of Thieves, we will not get involved in trouble with you in the future." Then he took the failed thief and disappeared like a shadow. Under the true vision, this invisibility can still be seen through.

A few hours later, Carret looked out and determined the location where the old thief lurked after leaving, and secretly remembered it.

The last sentence of the old thief gave the key information. ——The thief will only emphasize that this is trouble after accepting the hired task and failing the task. So, the previous spying was a task received from others.

So, who issued the task? Master Wei is not interested in knowing, but~ this gives me a reason to get angry~

Carrett looked at the capital in the distance and muttered: "We have come a long way. Now, I should find a chance to get angry."

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